A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ebbs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 0.5 3.2 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences51 2 1 1 0 0
Number of authors5 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of ebbs in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
, as the last ay the daylight ebbs away, clingin oan tae fragmen
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Far the tide ebbs and flows ilkie twenty fower
1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
he fell-thocht o anither life ebbs and flows wi the tide.
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
intae yir awareness o hid’s ebbs an flowes an chaenges an inte
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
aulder converseeshun, wan dat ebbs and flodds joost as de tide. on page 14

1 matches

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